Introduction
This Gladstone-based training for the C0 Crane Licence – mobile slewing crane – cranes over 100 tonnes – provides you with the knowledge and skills to operate a slewing mobile crane (over 100 tonnes) for licencing purposes. During this C0 slewing crane course you will learn about the planning and preparation of slewing crane work, the how to perform the work and through to packing up. The C0 Crane Licence – Mobile Slewing Crane course – 100 tonnes – runs over 5 days and involves both classroom and significant practical components to ensure you can be as successful as possible. Benefit from training undertaken by some the state’s top trainers who bring the incredible experience needed to make both the learning highly engaging and relevant to the real world you will be working in.
Course Overview
Course Dates
- UOC: TLILIC0020 - Licence to operate a slewing mobile crane (over 100 tonnes)
- Cost: From $1999
- Duration: 5 Days
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Introduction
Course Details
This C0 Crane Licence – mobile slewing crane over 100 tonnes – course includes the theoretical and practical components to meet the skills and knowledge required to be able to safely operate a slewing mobile crane with a Maximum Rated Capacity (MRC) over 100 tonnes for the high risk work licence class C0.
Overall, you will gain the following skills and knowledge across the following key areas. More detailed information about the content of the crane course can be found below:
- Crane configuration calculations
- Crane movements and stability
- Hazard and risk assessment strategies
- Communication methods
- Pre-start and operational checks
- Traffic management plans
- Lift impacting factors
Training and assessment is conducted at our Harness EnergyTraining facilities. Upon arrangement, training and assessment can be conducted at the premises of industry clients providing there are suitable industry training facilities.
The C0 Crane Licence mobile slewing crane course in Gladstone covers in detail the following topics:
Working Safely
- Health and Safety Rules, Codes of practice, Information Sheets, Australian standards
- Duty of Care, Hazards & Risks
- Task-Specific Control Strategies, Traffic Management,
- Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) , Job Safety/Hazard Analysis (JSA/JHA)
Planning for the Work
- Work Instructions
- Lift plan
- Crane Capacity
- Load Assessment
- Determine Crane Capacity
- Working Area Conditions
- Check Ground Conditions
- Check the Path of Movement
- Communication procedures
Lifting equipment
- Ropes, Webbing Slings, Flexible Steel Wire Ropes, Chains, Shackles
- Eyebolts, Hooks, Plate Clamps and Beam Clamps, Spreader and Lifting Beams, Lifting Lugs, Slinging Methods,
Prepare for Work
- Consulting with Other Workers about Hazards and Risks
- Apply Hazard Control Measures
- Lighting the Work Area
- Monitor Weather Conditions
- Crane and Equipment Checks
- Pre-Start Checks including Boom, Tyres, Hooks, sheaves, drums, sockets, Boom pawl
- Crane’s Logbook
- Locate and Identify Controls
- Start the Crane
- Check the Crane Safety Devices
- Operational Checks
- Report Any Faults
- Check Ground Conditions
- Check Communication Equipment
- Drive the Crane to the Work Area
Perform work/task
- Position the Crane for Work
- Outriggers/Stabilisers
- Packing
- Configure the Crane including Boom configuration, fly jib, counterweights and computations
- Review Work Plans and Information
- Position the Crane Hook
- Conduct a Test Lift
- Follow Communication Signals
- Operate the Crane including Crane Movements, Using the Luff Pawl, Double Blocking, Lifting Personnel
- Using Taglines
- Monitor the Movement of the Load
- Review the Route of Travel
- Configure the Crane to Mobile Loads
- Mobile the Load including on slopes
- Land the Load
- Unplanned and Unsafe Situations including malfunctions, problems with limiting Device, noises and vibrations, connection pins, displays, instability
- Workplace Emergencies
Pack up
- Conclude Operations
- Leaving a Crane Unattended Overnight
- Removing Hazard Control Measures
- Packing Up the Crane including stow and secure boom/job, motion locks and brakes
- Preparing the Crane for Travel and travel to shutdown site, shutting down and Securing the Crane
- Conduct Post-Operational Checks
- Record and Report Damage and Defects
Applying for a Licence to Operate a Mobile Slewing Crane (C0) Over 100t – Important Information
It is important you understand that this licence-focused training itself does not give you your high risk licence. However, assuming you pass your non-slewing mobile Crane assessment (over 100t) you have 60 days to apply (and be assessed) for your high risk work licence.
Upon successful completion of the C0 Crane Licence Training – Mobile Slewing Crane over 100t course, a nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the following unit of competency will be issued:
TLILIC0020 Licence to operate a slewing mobile crane (over 100 tonnes)
NOTE: Statement of Attainment will be issued by Harness Energy RTO 40521
Competence in this unit does not in itself result in a licence. Participants are only eligible to apply for a High Risk Work Licence in the specific state or territory where they have:
- Completed their training, and
- Are eighteen (18) years of age, and
- Have completed the minimum logbook hours or training record, and
- Have passed the mandated national assessment instrument, and
- Have met any other state or territory work health and safety (WHS) criteria.
A licensing fee is payable to the relevant state or territory jurisdiction for those students wishing to apply for a High Risk Work Licence (class C0).
Course Prerequisites
Mobile Slewing Crane training is suitable for you if you are required to operate a slewing mobile crane with a Maximum Rated Capacity (MRC) over 100 tonnes.
A moderate English language, literacy and numeracy skill level is required.
Participants must be over eighteen (18) years of age to undertake the mandated national assessment instrument.
All participants are required to wear the following minimum PPE to enter our facilities:
- Fully enclosed shoes (steel-capped boots preferred)
- Long-sleeve shirt with high visibility
- Long work pants
Additional PPE may be required depending on the course requirements.
Please also review the general important information (relevant to ALL courses) contained in Important Course Requirements
Frequently Asked Questions
As part of the practical component of the mobile slewing crane course you will be learn to lift and move four different loads using the main hook through an obstacle course, including a 180-degree minimum slew using all crane operational controls while the load is in full view of the crane operator. Loads must consist of:
- a load of >50% of the Rated Capacity (RC) of the crane with a boom length of >75%, and
- stillage containing at least ten scaffolding standards or containing a load of steel pipes of equivalent weight that requires a dogger to sling, and
- an asymmetrical load that requires a dogger to sling, and
- a round load with a minimum diameter of 300 mm and minimum length of three m that requires a dogger to sling
Slewing mobile crane operators may also operate other classes of cranes under the licensing laws relevant to crane operation – commonly called ‘encompassment arrangements’. C0 licence encompasses the crane classes of:
- CV – Vehicle loading crane with a capacity of 10 metre tonnes or more.
- CN – Non slewing mobile crane with a capacity exceeding 3 tonnes.
- RS – Reach stacker.
- C1 – Slewing mobile crane operation licence (up to 100 tonnes)
- C2 – Slewing mobile crane operation licence (up to 20 tonnes)
- C6 – Slewing mobile crane operation licence (up to 60 tonnes)
This mobile slewing crane training is based on the licensing requirements of Part 4.5 of the Model Work Health and Safety (WHS) regulations and meets Commonwealth, state and territory HRWL requirements
NOTE: You must first be deemed competent against the performance requirements for this unit of competence before undertaking the High Risk Work Licence (HRWL) National Assessment Instrument (NAI)
Once you pass your HRWL National Assessment you will have 60 days to apply for your licence.
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